A group of like-minded patriots, bound together by pride in American exceptionalism, plan on building an armed community to protect their liberty.
The group, named Citadel, intends to purchase 2,000 to 3,000 acres for the project in western Idaho. The community will comprise of 3,500 to 7,000 families of patriotic Americans who "voluntarily choose to live together in accordance with Thomas Jefferson's ideal of Rightful Liberty."
According to the Citadel website, Rightful Liberty means that "neighbors keep their noses out of other neighbors' business, that neighbors live and let live."
Citadel explains that residents in the community will be bound by the following:

Patriotism

Pride in American Exceptionalism

Our proud history of Liberty as defined by our Founding Fathers, and

Physical preparedness to survive and prevail in the face of natural catastrophes --such as Hurricanes Sandy or Katrina -- or man-made catastrophes such as a power grid failure or economic collapse.

Residents should also agree that being "prepared for the emergencies of life and being proficient with the American icon of Liberty -- the Rifle -- are prudent measures."
Some of the benefits of the Citadel community include a safe, well-prepared, patriotic community where children will be educated in school, not indoctrinated.
The community will be protected by a perimeter wall that will be inaccessible to "tourists." Each neighborhood within the community will have lower walls, dividing the town into defensible sections.
The website has a link to applications where prospective residents can sign up. According to Citadel, more than 200 families have completed applications, even before any land has been purchased.
While Citadel may sound wonderful to many who are reading this, the community has posted a warning on their home page:
"Marxists, Socialists, Liberals and Establishment Republicans will likely find that life in our community is incompatible with their existing ideology and preferred lifestyles."
Citadel says that every patriot selected to live within the community "will voluntarily agree to follow the footsteps of our Founding Fathers by swearing to one another our lives, our fortunes and our Sacred Honor to defend one another and Liberty against all enemies, foreign and domestic."

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It sounds like a good concept, but the images from the past like Waco, TX come to mind. I hope it works out and the idea spreads.

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" -Thomas Jefferson-

"Our rights come from our humanity and may not be legislated away -- not by a vote of Congress, not by the consensus of our neighbors, not even by agreement of all Americans but one." Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

Years ago there was an article in the American Rifleman ( I Believe)
It suggested that if enough patriots moved to a sparsley populated state like maybe Wyoming. They could soon control the state government & in short turn a whole state into a " Citadel" .
Clean the trash out the government & education system

" Save a tree...........Eat A Beaver!"

I seldom talk to liberals.............................. But when I do, I order fries............

I read an article yesterday comparing Glenn Beck's "Independence Park" and "The Citadel". It was more of a tongue in cheek comparison, but I did find it interesting that two different groups are looking at doing similar things to distance themselves from the Federal Government and the takers. My wife said "let's go!" until she found out its probably going to be in Idaho. She wants to head south toward warmer weather. LOL.

Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!

"If they’re going to come here illegally, apply for & receive assistance through a corrupted Government agency encouraging this lawless behavior, work under the table & send billions of dollars each year back to their families in Mexico, while bleeding local economies dry, protest in our streets waving their Mexican flags DEMANDING rights, while I have to press ’1′ for English, then they need to be shipped back to where they came from!" -Chad Miller

Americans who "voluntarily choose to live together in accordance with Thomas Jefferson's ideal of Rightful Liberty."

DOES THAT MEAN WE CAN HAVE SLAVES AN SLEEP WITH THEM IF WE JOIN??? LMAO

WHO WILL BE IN CHARGE OF THIS SO CALLED UTOPIA?????????? IM SURE THERE WILL BE ABUSES OF POWER AN IT WILL TURN INTO A CULT. iD BE A LITTLE LEARY OF A SITUATION WERE I COULD BE DICTATED TO FOLLOW ONE PERSONS OR A GROUP OR PEOPLES BELIEFS. INTERESTING IDEA SORT OF LIKE A HIPPY COMUNE WITH GUNS. I SEE A LOT IF ISSUES HOWEVER . IM SURE IT WILL GET MILITIA TYPES AN OTHERS. I SEE THE GOVERMENT WORRYING ABOUT THEM AN THERE BEING CONFLICTS AN MAYBE A WACO SITUATION WERE THEY START TRYING TO DISOBEY FEDERAL LAW. IF THEY WANT TO DO IT PAY THERE SHARE OF TAKES DONT COMMIT CRIMES OR AN DONT ENSLAVE THERE CITIZENS AN THEY DONT BOTHER ME GOOD LUCK.

DO THERE CITIZENS PLAN ON WORKING OUT SIODE THE WALLS IN REGULAR SOCIETY??? HOW ARE THEY GOING TO SUPPORT ALL THIS CONSTRUCTION ???? THERE IS GOING TO BE COSTS TO KEEP IT UP AN RUNNING. WILL THERE KIDS GO TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS OR WILL THEY SELF EDUCATE WITHT ERE VERSION OF HISTORY. iD HAVE A LOT OF CONCERNS THEN SO DID THE PILGRIMS WHO CAME HERE TO ESACAPRE A BAD GOVERMENT. IT WOULD REALLY NOT BE MUCH DIFFERANT THAN A RELIGIOUS GROUP DOINT HTE SAME THING.

CONSTITUTIALISM HAS DAMN NEAR BECOME A RELIGION TO MANY PEOPLE. THESE PEOPLE ARE ALMOST MAKING JEFFERSON THERE GOD OR LEADER. YOU CAN ALMOST COMPARE IT TO THE MORMAN, AMISH QUAKERS, ETC AN OTHER GROUPS WHO HAVE TRIED TO LIVE INSIDE THE USA BUT AS A SEPERATE COMMUNITY. JEFFERSION MIGHT NOT BE THE MAN EVERY ONE THINKS HE WAS. SEEMS LIKE M ANY OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS HAVE REACUED GOOD LIKE STATUS AMOUNG CONSTUTIONALISTS. THEY SEEM TO HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY THE VICTOR , MA Y OF THE MEN ON OUR CONSTITUION WERE CAPIUTOLISTS , CROOKS, AN NOT REALLY THAT RESPECTABLE TO MANY AT THE TIME. NOT SAYING THEY WERE ALL BAD BUT MANY OF THEM HAD THERE BACKS TO A WALL AN THEY HAD TOI GO THE ROUTE THEY TOOK.

HOW LONG BEFRE SOME TEANAGER DECIDES HE OR SHE DOSENT WANT TO BE PART OF IT AN LEAVE WILL WE SEE BREAKING CITIDEL TV SHOWS ON DISCOVERY CHANNEL WERE LITTEL SUZEY IS ALL GROWN UP AN WHANTS TO MARRY THE BLACK DEMOCRATE DOWN THE ROAD AN DONT LIKE GUNS ?????????????

ID BE INTESTED IN LIVING A COMMUNITY OF LIKE MINDED PEOPLE BU I DONT KNOW IF ID WANT IT TO BE ARMED FORT AT ODS WITH THE GOVEMENT AN ANY ONE THE TOWNSHIP FELT WAS NOT OK TO DEAL WITH.

ID LOVE TO SEE A TOWN GO USA ONLY AN MAKE IT MANITORY ALL PRODUCTS WERE MADE IN THE USA .

INTERESTING IDEA. I LIKE 5 WIVES AN A FULL AUTO MACHINE GUN ON THE ROOF AN I COULD PLAY MY GUTAR AN EVEY BODY COULD COME SING WITH ME AN I COULD TELL EVERY ONE WHAT TO DO AN I COULD ARRANGE ALL THE WEDDINGS AFTER I GOT TO MAKE SURE THE BRIDE WAS A VIRGIN AN TRAIN HER TO BE A WOMAN OF THE
1BIGGUN DESTINATION TO LOVE AN JOY . ID NOT PAY ANY TAXES AN EVERY ONE WOULD LOVE ME AN MY IDEAS AN WANT TO GIVE ME MONEY I COULD MOVE DOWN TO TEXAS OR SOME WERE AN SET ALL THIS UP. I COULD BE THE 1BIGGUN MESSIAH OF ETERANL WISDOM AN FREEDOM TO THE THIRD PLANE OF THE SECOND MOON OF SATURN. I WOULD BE A FAIR LOVING GOD WHO WOULD THROW PARTIES FOR ALL MY FOLLOWERS WHO WOULD HAPPELY TEND TO MY FIELDS AN HEARDS JUST T TO BE NEAR ME. ID HAVE 300 CHILDERN ALL OF WHO HAVE THE SAME NAME AN THEY WOULD RUN MY OTHER FORTS OF JOY AS MY SUPERIOR IDEAS FLOW INTO A GENTAL WARM BIRTH POOL OF HAPPNESS. ID HAVE TO HAVE A DIVISION OF WARRIERS OF PEACE TO 1BIGGUN TO DEFEND FROM THE EVIL EMPIRE OF THE USA AN THOSE WHO ANLY WANT TO STOP THE LOVE ID GIVE TO ALL MY DECIPOHLES. THOSE WHO APOSE ME WOULD FEEL THE JOY OF GIVING THERE LIVES SO OTHERS COULD UNDERSTAND THAT IM THE ONLY RIGHTIOUS PATH AN IM DOING ALL THIS TO SAVE THEM. THOSE WHO APOSE THE 1BIGGUN DIRECTIVE OF LOVE TO THE WAY WOULD WOULD HAVE TO BE COINDISERED IFIDELS OF SATEN AN WILL HAVE TO BE LOVINGLY ELEMINTED SO MY MEASAGE OF LOVE GOULD BE SPREAD. ILL HAVE MEMABERS INVOLKED INTO MY CIRCLE OF TRUST TO DECIDE WHO IS NAUGHTY AN NICE .
MY STAUTE WILL BE SEEN FROM SPACE BY DRAWING MY PORTATE IN THE DESERT SANDS IN THE WAY THE NASCAN LINES ARE. ILL WRITE IN ALL CAPITOLS AN MY SPELLING WILL BECOME THE NEW WAY OF COMMUNNICATION. ALL OTHER DEVILS DICITIONARYS WILL BE BURNED.
TO BECOME A MAN AN MARRY A YOUR ACCURACY WITH A RIFLE OF LOVE MUST BE .75MOA AN YOU MUST BE A LOADING MASTER 23% OF YOUR AMMO WILL BE DONATED TO THE GREAT 1BIGGUN AS TO FIND A PLACE BY MY SIDE IN ETERANTY . TO BECOME A WOMAN OF BREEDING YOU MUST BE PROFICENT IN ALL CULLUNARY ARTS YOUR TEETH MUST BE GOOD TO CHEW HIDES AN SMOOTH TO PLEASE THE 1BIGGUN WARRIOR ILL SELECT FOR YOU . FOR FEAR NOT YOUR CLOTHES WILL BE SLECTED BY THE 1BIGGUN COMMITY ON DRESS AN APPERANCE. YOUR PLACE AS BESIDE THE 1BIGGUN MASTER OF ENDURING HAPPYNESS WILL BE ETERANAL IN THE HEAVEN OF MY BREATH. YOUR GIFT OF WORKING EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE FOR ME WILL NOT BE SLAVERY IT WILL THE KEY TO YOUR SALVATRION AN ENTERY TO THE GATES OF 1BIGGUNDOME . YOUR THOUGHTS OF HATE WILL DISOLVE AS YOU BECOME EDEARING TO THE FLOW OF MY LOVE.

SO SEEKERS IF THE TRUE DESIRE OF LOVE, ILL LEAVE YOU WITH THE PROMOSE OF FURTHER PROPHECIES GUIDED BY THESE MARGURETAS OF THE ENLIGTMENT OF THE SOUL TO FURTER GUIDE YOU TO THE SALVATION OF 1BIGGUNIDISM IN THE WEEKS AHEAD. LOAD LOTS AN BE PROSPEROUS AN BREED DAUGHTERS TO MAKE THE 1BIGGUN PROUD .

THE WORDS OF THE 1BIGGUN WILL BE A SPECIAL COLOR THAT ONLY THOSE CHOSIN BY DEVINE POWER AN WHO SHOULD GIVE AN ARE WORTHY CAN SEE AS BEING DIFFERANT THAN HE BLACK WRITTINGS OF THE UNWORTY. IF THOU CAN SEE THE SPECAL COLOR OF MY WORDS YOU ARE A CHOSEN ONE OF SEEING OF THE SEA URCHIN COLOR OF MY DIRECTIN TO YOU SALVATION. IF THE COLOR OF MY WORDS YOU READ IS NOT BLACK YOU HAVE BEEN SUMOINED TO GIVE AN SHARE IN MY BREATH OF LOVE FOR FEARITH NOT THE WORD I WRITE ARE SPELLED CORRETTLY IT IS EVIL THAT MAKES IT HARD FOR YOU TO READ AN HAS DISTOTRED MY WRIITINGS AN MISSSPELELD MY WORDS OF TRUTH . ALL IS RIGHT IN WHAT I WRITE TRUST THY 1BIGGUN DO YOU SEE THE COLOR OF MY WORDS???????????????

Well it sounds more like a like-minded prepper community. I figure if it happened it would be like the Amish where they have their community and only interact with outsiders when necessary. I do fear a Waco-type reaction if they get too far into the extreme.

Communities are already doing this they just don't have a name like "Citadel". We just call them by their town or city names.

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" -Thomas Jefferson-

"Our rights come from our humanity and may not be legislated away -- not by a vote of Congress, not by the consensus of our neighbors, not even by agreement of all Americans but one." Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

YEAP THERE ARE LOTS OF GROUPS WHO TRY TO BE ALONE THERE ARE SOME MONKSOR SOMETHING IN A TEMPLE DOWN THE ROAD WHO KNOWS WHAT THERE REALLY UP TO????

IF THERE SEEKING MEDIA ATTENTION ITS NOT LIKELY A GOOD THING. IT SEEMS THESE GROUPS LIKE PREPPERS AN SURVIVALITS SEEM TO GO A LOT OF TROUBLE TO GET ATTENTION THEY WOULD NOT REALLY WANT. IM BETTING MOST TRUE PREPPERS AN SURVIVALISTS DONT GO ON UTUBE. THE INMTERNET AN TALK TOT HE MEDIA ABOUT WERE THEY ARE AN WHAT THEY DO.

IF THEY WORK PAY TAXES RAISE GOOD KIDS AN DONT CAUSE TROUBLE LEAVE THEM BE. IMO SEEMS ODD HTERE ADVERTISING TO BE LEFT ALONE???

Yeah just don't drink the special punch that's being made. That's for a larger gathering when the aliens are on their way.

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" -Thomas Jefferson-

"Our rights come from our humanity and may not be legislated away -- not by a vote of Congress, not by the consensus of our neighbors, not even by agreement of all Americans but one." Judge Andrew P. Napolitano